Walker Sends To-Do List to New Congress

After years of sounding the fiscal imbalance bell, Comptroller General David Walker, the head of the Government Accountability Office, has committed a to-do list to paper for the 110th Congress.In a letter dated Nov. 17, Walker outlines a number of areas his federal watchdog agency, says the newly-elected politicians should consider in getting a “jump-start” on legislative planning.

"We cannot afford to continue business as usual in Washington, given our current deficit and growing long-term fiscal challenges," Walker wrote. “Most of the federal government’s current policies, programs, functions and activities are based on conditions that existed decades ago, are not results-based and are not well aligned with 21st century realities.”